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Under the gentle questioning of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Amodei made an analogy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

"We are trying to identify the most gentle solutions to the problem, as there is unfortunately no easy way to clean it up," she says.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

I began eyeing $3,000 the way someone playing a very gentle video game might eye the next level.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

For the Yolles family, the concert was a gentle introduction to live music logic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The soft tug of an Afterlife realm—as gentle as a strand of spiderweb clinging to passing fur.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Repairs start with a digger light enough not to cause fresh damage, which pulls the bare peat back to a gentler slope and folds the vegetation over it.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

"Earlier studies often examined gentler bends or relied on external pressure, making this subtle effect difficult to separate," Iyengar said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

But she acknowledges that her distinct approach — kinder, gentler, more tearful — is rooted in her particular skill set: “It’s similar to how I responded to being led in kitchens,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

This album brings us back to that pastoral landscape when it takes a warmer and gentler turn in its final minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

“It is impossible to be gentler, Herbert. Yes? What else?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

Ms Darwiche's friends described her as "the gentlest and kindest soul we knew."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024

In Sunday’s statement, she dubbed her singer husband “the gentlest of souls” and said “we were equally astonished as fans at Perry’s physical outburst.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024

“You have the gentlest voice,” Sonia tells him.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

By the end of the second week, she was standing and belching and chewing her cud—the gentlest cow I ever milked.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

Coconut milk gentles the green-chile heat in the thick, creamy sauce.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2017

Mallory Ortberg: That’s all for this week, gentles.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2016

Saturday's conditions at Whistling Straits led to outstanding scores, as gentles breezes off Lake Michigan, combined with greens that Phil Mickelson described as "pristine, beautiful, large and receptive," produced a festival of birdies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2015

And he gentles the excitable Tushingham into a performance of wonderful precision and variety.

From Time Magazine Archive

And within twenty-four hours the two gentles had borrowed one-and-sevenpence-halfpenny!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various

It seems somehow like he’s gentled us into it with benevolent trickery — as if he’d said, “Look! Over there,” and while we were distracted ripped a Band-Aid off our skin.

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

On the phone from Britain, Wainwright speaks in quick, declarative sentences, gentled a bit by her Yorkshire accent with its long A’s, round O’s and forgiving consonants, but still quite direct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2019

The subjects of her essays have gentled somewhat, without any loss of acuity or elegance: the joys of being a grandmother, discovering the ukulele, the burly screen presence of Russell Crowe.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2017

After nearly 20 years as a gallery destination, and despite a spate of sleek new apartment buildings, it is still nothing but art, and it still feels surprisingly raw — gentrified but not especially gentled.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2011

Almost imperceptibly, Isa’s violin gentled, as if coaxing “Les Furies” into submission.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

The material doesn’t want sophisticated adults mucking about in it or, worse, gentling its hard edges for commercial consumption.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Like a grade-school teacher, the matrix provides a physical framework that supports and organizes the cells, gentling and channeling them to harmoniously create a functional tissue.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

These handling and gentling exercises will essentially be like playing doctor with your puppy.

From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2022

This gentling spares many vulnerable kids years of suffering.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2013

Her bare hands worked them into the ground, prodding and gentling, as if putting to bed an endless supply of small children.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver